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The Significance of the Anus in Psychoanalytic Theory

Saturday, December 4, 2021 @ 10:00 am - 12:30 pm

Speaker

Benjamin Y. Fong, Ph.D.

This talk aims first to illustrate the significance of the anus in psychoanalytic theory, engaging with the writing of Freud, Lou Andreas-Salome, Karl Abraham, and others. It then shifts to a discussion of sociological applications of the theory of anality in the works of Norman O. Brown and Otto Fenichel, articulating finally a theory of capitalist anality through a reading of Marx’s concept of use-value for others.

Venue

Berkeley City Club
2315 Durant Avenue
Berkeley, CA 94704 United States
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Phone
510-848-7800
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SPEAKER

Benjamin Y. Fong, Ph.D.

Benjamin Y. Fong teaches at the Honors College at Arizona State University. He is the author of Drugs in American Capitalism (Verso, forthcoming) and Death and Mastery: Psychoanalytic Drive Theory and the Subject of Late Capitalism (Columbia, 2016).

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